China on Thursday stated it has no intention to intervene in Türkiye‘s inside affairs forward of its presidential and parliamentary elections after Chinese state-owned media shared false stories about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan‘s well being.
“I’m not aware of the specifics you mentioned. Let me say that Türkiye is a friend of China. China always opposes interference in any country’s internal affairs. Türkiye’s elections are internal affairs and China won’t intervene or interfere in them,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning instructed Anadolu throughout a press briefing in Beijing.
On Wednesday, the state-owned China Global Television Network’s (CGTN) department within the U.S. offered unfaithful content material about Erdoğan’s well being in two separate posts on its Twitter account, which it later deleted and reported that the earlier stories have been “unconfirmed.”
While CGTN America didn’t present a supply for its claims in its posts, it didn’t make any corrections regardless that the news was denied.
On the identical day, Türkiye’s Communications Director Fahrettin Altun introduced that the nation rejected “baseless claims” about Erdoğan’s well being, after the faux news was propagated on social media.
“No amount of disinformation can dispute the fact that the Turkish people stand with their leader and @RTErdoğan and his AK (Justice and Development) Party are set to win the May 14 elections,” Altun stated on Twitter, whereas additionally sharing a screenshot of one of many posts shared by CGTN America.
“The claims shared on some social media accounts that ‘President Erdoğan had a heart attack and was hospitalized’ do not reflect the truth,” the Center for Combating Disinformation of the Directorate of Communications individually stated on Twitter.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
